Today we welcome Scott Aukerman of the Comedy Bang! Bang! TV show coming to IFC on Friday, June 8th, at 10:00 / 9:00 Central. He is also the host of Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast on the Earwolf podcast network which he co-founded. You may also know Aukerman as a writer on the groundbreaking Mr. Show with Bob and David, the producer and director of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, and co-founder of the Comedy Bang Bang (formerly Comedy Death-Ray) show every Tuesday night at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, a mainstay of the LA comedy scene.

We’ve already seen a sneak peek and one full episode (starring Amy Poehler) of IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang!, and it’s like nothing else we’ve seen on TV. The best comparison I can think of is the originality of Steve Coogan’s “Knowing Me, Knowing You… with Alan Partridge” except Coogan’s show was scripted and Aukerman’s has plenty of improvisation from celebrities and comedians. In other words, it’s surreal and off the cuff and several of our favorite people are going to show up. Seriously, here are just some of the guests you can see in the first season on IFC: Paul Rudd, Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Banks, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Ed Helms, Seth Rogen, Adam Scott, and “Weird Al” Yankovic. The first episode on June 8th includes appearances by Zach Galifianakis, Gillian Jacobs, Andy Daly, and Will Forte.

Comedy Bang! Bang! host Scott Aukerman will be swinging by the discussion from 2 PM to 3 p.m. EST, just answering your queries and being effortlessly awesome. If you have any questions or comments for him, begin your comment with @Scott and go for it. If you wrote your question on a brick and threw it at my car’s windshield, that is a classic UPROXX open thread blunder — we’ll have to deduct points for that. You should have asked those questions here. We are now opening the floor to questions.

Great question. Why hasn’t there been an issue of the Fantastic Four where Reed Richards just stretches and sees how far he can go? All the way across the US, stopping in various small towns, and discussing their problems. Oh wait – Superman just did that and it was terrible.

They have truly been the greatest. After slogging my way through several networks of people who don’t get it, they love the show, they are totally supportive of my vision, and are there to help make it happen. Also, they have the greatest marketing team I’ve ever come across.

I think I met Reggie at a show Kulap used to book called Garage Comedy. LIke most great things in life, I didn’t know what I was seeing or how to react. Then I started having him on the live CDR shows. Then our friendship blossomed!

@ Scott : is there a rough outline of where you and the guest want to take the adventures of the guests? you alluded to that on the “bonus” episode w/ Ed Helms, but what about regular characters, like Gary Marshall or Bob Douka or Bobby Bottleservice?

@Scott Not to ruin the mystery but how much do guests know going into Between Two Ferns? I can imagine someone like Michael Cera being in on the joke but on the other hand there’s no way Sean Penn has any idea.

@Scott: The released episode, and full length trailer, of Comedy Bang Bang on IFC was RIDDLED with meta-humour. Delightful as it may be (and it was), isn’t it a bit worrying that you might run out of ways to meta-fy the episodes? I’m not even sure if that was a question, but please bear in mind that i’m foreigner. And yes, I DO want to know what love is.

We have one episode written – I was hoping to write it for an hour a day when we were working on the TV show. But that was a pipe dream! I talked to Neil Campbell the other day, and we’re hoping to get started up on it soon.

@Scott – how long did it take Amy Poehler to apply her wig in the recent episode of CBB on IFC? Also, Cake Boss! Also, since earwolf has an “open door” policy for guests, when can I schedule my appearance on the show? /inappropriate hugs

I think it took Amy about seven hours in the makeup chair – applying the wig, applying the blue bodypaint, taking OFF the blue bodypaint, then realizing the wig was on backwards… but that was her committment to the Amy Poehler character! PS- feel free to drop by anytime.

I love to eat shitty food, so that is one program that makes my mouth water. Until Guy Fieri starts eating, that is! That guy is disgusting. Most other food shows I find boring – I used to love Iron Chef, until I found out how fake it is.

I tried VERY hard to get Chris Elliott on both the podcast and TV show. I even offered to pay for flying him out myself, since it was a little over our budget. His work means a lot to me. Some day, I hope! I was very pleased I got to have Paul Reubens on, though.

@Scott – Ok, enough questions. I just want to say that Comedy Bang Bang Radio is one of the most consistently funny audiovisual whatever that I know. I will say that you do have a fanbase here in Sweden (that’s right) calling for your to bring your standup show here. Give me the odds on that happening, and PLEASE, be gentle.

Mad Men has been truly incredible this season – I can’t think of anything better. As much as I like Breaking Bad – that show survives on a pure “oh shit, what’s going to happen next?” kind of level, that MM transcends. They’re like wonderful short stories every week that don’t rely on guns or killing anyone to be awesome. I think this season will go down as one of the best seasons of TV ever.

Haha… when people were talking about that after the first time I did it, I was like “what are they all talking about?” I usually forget everything that happens on the show the minute we stop recording. I had to go back and listen to that again, hence my callback to it.